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Big and Small Ideas by Rudy OwensThu, 17 Aug 2017 16:56:45 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/27b7d1dcf42e64756b495bf7c6d56922?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.pngRudy Owens' Bloghttps://rudyowensblog.com
What Justine Damond’s Shooting Death Tells us About Americahttps://rudyowensblog.com/2017/07/27/what-justine-damonds-shooting-death-tells-us-about-america/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/07/27/what-justine-damonds-shooting-death-tells-us-about-america/#respondFri, 28 Jul 2017 02:43:22 +0000http://rudyowensblog.com/?p=2869]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/07/27/what-justine-damonds-shooting-death-tells-us-about-america/feed/0rsdowensAdoptee Rights Advocates Must Critically View Any Group Lacking ‘Street Cred’https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/05/20/adoptee-rights-advocates-must-critically-view-any-group-lacking-street-cred/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/05/20/adoptee-rights-advocates-must-critically-view-any-group-lacking-street-cred/#commentsSat, 20 May 2017 22:21:16 +0000http://rudyowensblog.com/?p=2810]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/05/20/adoptee-rights-advocates-must-critically-view-any-group-lacking-street-cred/feed/2rsdowensDetroit: A story I never planned on tellinghttps://rudyowensblog.com/2017/04/06/detroit-a-story-i-never-planned-on-telling/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/04/06/detroit-a-story-i-never-planned-on-telling/#respondFri, 07 Apr 2017 05:34:34 +0000http://rudyowensblog.com/?p=2768]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/04/06/detroit-a-story-i-never-planned-on-telling/feed/0rsdowensThe critical role of kinship in child-rearinghttps://rudyowensblog.com/2017/02/26/the-critical-role-of-kinship-in-child-rearing/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/02/26/the-critical-role-of-kinship-in-child-rearing/#respondSun, 26 Feb 2017 20:12:34 +0000http://rudyowensblog.com/?p=2756]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/02/26/the-critical-role-of-kinship-in-child-rearing/feed/0rsdowensA shot of some of the tens of thousands of babies relinquished for adoption through the maternity care facilities run by the National Florence Crittenton Mission. (Source: SIoux City Journal, "Wife of Nobel winner started life at Crittenton Center," Sept.18, 2011.Book cover to Kathryn Joyce's book on the Christian adoption movement, The Child Catchers.Discrimination against adoptees rooted in fears of illegitimacyhttps://rudyowensblog.com/2017/01/29/discrimination-against-adoptees-rooted-in-fears-of-illegitimacy/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/01/29/discrimination-against-adoptees-rooted-in-fears-of-illegitimacy/#respondSun, 29 Jan 2017 21:16:49 +0000http://rudyowensblog.com/?p=2708]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2017/01/29/discrimination-against-adoptees-rooted-in-fears-of-illegitimacy/feed/0rsdowensRudy Owens, as a young child, and later someone denied equal treatment under the law because of my status as both an adoptee and someone born David Kirschner's imaginary diagnosis that stigmatized adoptees can still be found in publications, despite being discredted as a fabrication nearly three decades earlier.the-outcast-painting-in-royal-academy-of-arts-london-1851bastard-examination1oliver-twist-coverThe New York Times covered the findings of the investigation of the horrific conditions that killed nearly four in five relinquished infants in Baltimore, in 1914.You were surprised by Trump’s con job? Seriously?https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/11/18/trumps-con-job/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/11/18/trumps-con-job/#commentsSat, 19 Nov 2016 00:18:34 +0000http://rudyowensblog.com/?p=2644]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/11/18/trumps-con-job/feed/1rsdowensPresident Elect Donald J. TrumpAdolph Hitler, one of history's most infamous demagoguesWalmart is the largest commercial retailer of guns in the United States, including semi-automatic rifles commonly used now in mass shootings.Mores Guns Than PeopleOECD Health SpendingNot many care what happened to Midwest cities over the last two decades in Washington, DC.moore-screen-snapshothitler-and-hindenbergChanging my blog name, but keeping the bloghttps://rudyowensblog.com/2016/10/28/changing-my-blog-name-but-keeping-the-blog/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/10/28/changing-my-blog-name-but-keeping-the-blog/#respondFri, 28 Oct 2016 22:45:33 +0000http://rudyowensblog.com/?p=2628]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/10/28/changing-my-blog-name-but-keeping-the-blog/feed/0rsdowensI care a lot about a lot of things. My interests in many policy, health, and global issues inform the posts I shared on this blog. But sometimes, it's important not to take things too seriously. If that means suring where a great white attacked a fellow surfer, humor is probably the best antidote to fear. My Friend and I had a great day and respected the ocean, home to so many wonderful things.Scenes from a wasteland: inside an abandoned Detroit public high schoolhttps://rudyowensblog.com/2016/09/30/scenes-from-a-wasteland-inside-an-abandoned-detroit-public-high-school/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/09/30/scenes-from-a-wasteland-inside-an-abandoned-detroit-public-high-school/#respondFri, 30 Sep 2016 18:13:16 +0000http://iwonderandwander.rudyfoto.com/?p=2605]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/09/30/scenes-from-a-wasteland-inside-an-abandoned-detroit-public-high-school/feed/0rsdowensThe trashed and gutted Crockett Technical High School was listed for sale in September 2015 by the Detroit Public Schools, which failed in every sense to protect the school from destruction by scrappers and vandals.Detroit’s complex legacy in the National Florence Crittenton Missionhttps://rudyowensblog.com/2016/09/03/detroits-complex-legacy-in-the-national-forence-crittenton-mission/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/09/03/detroits-complex-legacy-in-the-national-forence-crittenton-mission/#commentsSun, 04 Sep 2016 01:33:55 +0000http://iwonderandwander.rudyfoto.com/?p=2533]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/09/03/detroits-complex-legacy-in-the-national-forence-crittenton-mission/feed/3rsdowensFlorence Crittenton Home and Hospital Detroit, 1932. Source: Fifty Years' Work with Girls, 1883-1933: A Story of the Florence Crittenton HomesSource: Fifty Years' Work with Girls, 1883-1933: A Story of the Florence Crittenton Homes.Charles Crittenton, founder of the Florence Crittenton Mission.Kate Waller Barrett, former president of the National Florence Crittenton Mission.Florence Crittenton HomeNational Florence Critttenton Mission convention, 1932, Detroit.A shot of some of the tens of thousands of babies relinquished for adoption through the maternity care facilities run by the National Florence Crittenton Mission. (Source: SIoux City Journal, "Wife of Nobel winner started life at Crittenton Center," Sept.18, 2011.Getting what has always been mine–my original birth certificatehttps://rudyowensblog.com/2016/07/29/birthcertificatevictory/
https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/07/29/birthcertificatevictory/#commentsSat, 30 Jul 2016 00:42:24 +0000http://iwonderandwander.rudyfoto.com/?p=2487]]>https://rudyowensblog.com/2016/07/29/birthcertificatevictory/feed/3rsdowensRudy Owens holds a copy of his original birth certificate (some info whited out intentionally). Michigan denied my human right to my birth record for 27 years. They failed. I did not.This is part of my original record of birth, which the state of Michigan considered a top secret document that had to be kept from me at all cost for decades, even after I knew my birth name and birth families. A birth certificate is the most crucial identity document, which allows one to get critical other documents such as a passportSupreme Court EdificeVital Records at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services made sure to remind me that I am a bastard by placed in larged capital letters I announced my victory over Michigan's adoption secrecy mongers with a Tweet--of course!Defeating one's dragons on a hero's journey can sometimes take years. Bureaucratic dragons can be some of the most difficult ones to vanquish. They can regenerate like a many-headed hydra, which can not fully be defeated so long as it retains one of its many heads, according to Greek mythology.